Wine Writing Is Travel Writing. At Least It Could Be.

Unfortunately, most of it is not, and that's one reason why we suffer through so much poor wine prose.

For years, I’ve had a New Yorker cartoon tacked near my desk: A man and woman sit at a table and gaze at one another over glasses of wine; the woman, her hand clutching at her bosom, says to the man, “Do wine writers suffer and all that?” Hopefully, I do not have to explain the irony. I mostly keep this cartoon on my wall in a vain attempt to remind mys…